ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said that Pakistan and China must not underestimate the threats to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Project (CPEC) from "the......
KUNDUZ: Traumatised residents returning to Kunduz Wednesday were facing major food shortages after the Taliban beat a "tactical retreat", leaving much of the city in ruins as fears of a comeback by......
DHAKA: Bangladesh breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday after cricket's governing body confirmed that the country would host next year's junior World Cup despite mounting concerns over......
AMSTERDAM: Next year's European Championship in France was enlarged from 16 teams to 24. There still wasn't a place for the dismal Dutch.The 1988 European champion and three-time World Cup finalist......
DUBAI: The death toll from last month's crush and stampede in Mina has risen to at least 1,633, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it the deadliest incident in the pilgrimage's......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan congratulated party workers and activists on Wednesday for displaying conviction and passion in the NA-122 by-polls, and said PTI had......
*Sana was a 20-year-old unmarried girl sitting in the modest examining rooms of a government hospital’s emergency room, with complaints of chest pain and “ghabrahat”.This was her third visit in three......
MULTAN: Five convicted murderers were hanged in Punjab on Wednesday morning, bringing the total number executed to more than 235 since December — when the government lifted a moratorium on the death......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday stressed upon the need for timely completion of energy projects to overcome the prevailing energy crisis in the country.Chairing a......
DUSHANBE: An explosion at an oil storage facility used by the local arm of Russia's Gazprom in Tajikistan killed four people and injured several others, authorities in the ex-Soviet country said......
TEHRAN: Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage on Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher units, which officials said could be used if “enemies make......
FAISALABAD: Pakistan fast bowler Mohammed Amir has been fined 100 per cent of his match fee by the Pakistan Cricket Board for breach of discipline during a domestic cricket match.Amir, who is......
Last Thursday, a mob nearly killed two Muslims in Uttar Pradesh's Karhal town of India.The two men, 55-year-old Mohammad Shafiq and 27-year-old Mohammad Kalam, were skinning a cow when they were......
ISLAMABAD: Asia Bibi, a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy, has been put in isolation over fears of attacks by vigilantes enraged over a high-profile ruling in another blasphemy case that......
Younis Khan on Tuesday broke Javed Miandad's long-standing record as the highest run-getter for Pakistan in Tests.The 37-year-old veteran also holds the record for the most centuries scored by a......
FARIDKOT: At least two people were killed and over 100 people, including cops, injured during clashes between Sikh community protestors and police over an alleged incident of desecration in Faridkot......
PESHAWAR: The work of the remarkable women known as Aware Girls to counter the extremism of the Taliban would be dangerous even if they weren't based in Peshawar, a city that feels as if it’s under......
BEIJING: China said on Wednesday it had no plans to send military ships to Syria to fight with Russian forces after reports in overseas media that it was planning to do so.Chinese media has picked up......
KATHMANDU: Just when Nepal was recovering from the devastating earthquake that killed thousands, flattened communities and chased away foreign tourists, protests by ethnic groups and severe fuel......
Zunera Ishaq is a niqab-wearing Canadian immigrant of Pakistani origin; she is also likely to determine Canada’s future prime minister.Ms Ishaq picked a legal fight with the right-wing Canadian......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence Wednesday over the lynching of a Muslim man suspected of eating beef, calling it “unfortunate”, after criticism over his failure to......
RISALPUR: Naval Chief Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah said Wednesday that Pakistan is a peace-loving country and seeks a harmonious co-existence with all countries.Addressing the passing out parade at......
NEW DELHI: When a gang of thugs ambushed a Mumbai book launch by dousing the compere in ink, India's literati saw the attack as yet another blot on the country's reputation for tolerance since......
NEW YORK: Pakistan's Permanent Representative to United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi on Wednesday while highlighting the role of Pakistani women in international peacekeeping efforts said that the......
BEIJING: China's air force can launch long-range precision strikes, state media on Wednesday cited a military expert as saying, as the country working to develop its offensive air......
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's flagship carrier Cathay Pacific has suspended flights over Iran and the Caspian Sea after the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a warning about missiles being fired......
KOLKATA: London bookmaker William Hill is backing Pakistan to whitewash the Englishmen in the Test series, though it feels the Three Lions have an edge in the shorter versions of the game.Moreover,......
ABU DHABI: Openers Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali batted solidly to take England to 56-0 after Shoaib Malik's double century lifted Pakistan to a mammoth total in the first Test in Abu Dhabi on......
ABU DHABI: England paceman Steven Finn will return home after suffering a toe injury which ruled him out of the three-match Test and four-match one-day series, England and Wales Cricket Board......
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani defence minister Ahmed Mukhtar has categorically denied claiming in an interview with Indian TV channel CNN-IBN that Pakistan had knowledge of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: At least seven people were killed and several injured in a blast on Wednesday at the political office of Sardar Amjad Farooq Khosa, a Member of National Assembly belonging to the......
I have a seven-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. My approach to these two individuals is palpably different.My daughter, to my enormous relief, is a bit of a gem. Her qualities fill me with......
KARACHI: A Sindh police spokesman on Wednesday has denied a news report claiming the police issued or prepared a list of 53 Islamic State (IS)-'inspired' militants.The spokesman in his statement......
RIYADH: A fall in Saudi oil revenues opens greater opportunities for the private sector by promoting a shift in spending to domestic companies, the head of the kingdom’s chambers of commerce said on......
PARIS: The world’s demand for oil is expected to slow in 2016 in response to a more pessimistic outlook for the global economy, likely keeping the crude market oversupplied, the International Energy......
SYDNEY: Australia coach Darren Lehmann said on Tuesday he expects a seamless transition period for his new-look Test team heading into next month’s start of the international cricket season.Australia......
LAHORE: Pakistan paceman Mohammad Irfan faces a ball-tampering allegation levelled by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in their ongoing Quaid-i-Azam Trophy match against Khan Research Laboratories (KRL)......
ABU DHABI: Shoaib Malik hit a fighting hundred to cap an impressive return to Test cricket after five years as he led Pakistan’s charge in the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.Malik......
Despite the injury worries in the camp and all the apprehensions to go with it, Pakistan I must say has done well so far to play themselves into a respectable position in their first innings of the......
ABU DHABI: Younis Khan wants to become the first Pakistan player to score 10,000 Test runs after surpassing Javed Miandad’s 22-year record mark on the opening day of the first Test against England in......
SHANGHAI: World number three and defending champion Roger Federer suffered a surprise defeat in the second round of the Shangahi Masters on Tuesday, losing 7-6 (7/4), 2-6, 6-3 to little-known Spanish......
LONDON: Russia are returning to the European Championship for the fourth straight time, while Slovakia will be playing in the tournament for the first time as an independent nation.Russia, who host......
KARACHI: Noted cueist Mohammad Asif had to wait for seven years to capture National Bank of Pakistan ranking title as he snatched a fine 8-7 win from the jaws of defeat against defending champion......
GALLE: Sri Lanka and the West Indies will look to offload past baggage and begin a new era with fresh young talent when their two-Test series starts here on Wednesday.Sri Lanka are rebuilding......
KARACHI: In yet another operation against traffickers, the wildlife department staff in collaboration with the Rangers seized 40 laggar falcons and an owl from a Karachi-bound passenger bus at Toll......
HYDERABAD/KARACHI: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) got a cement production unit shut down on Tuesday in Nooriabad for repeated violations of environmental laws and an undertaking given by......
SANGHAR: A 12-year-old girl and her elder sister with gunshot wounds were rushed to the Sanghar Civil Hospital on Tuesday but a cause leading to the firing could not be established till late in the......
NAWABSHAH: A man who was found guilty of killing his daughter last year was sentenced to death by a court here on Tuesday.Allah Dino Loond was booked for killing his daughter, Ms Shahzadi, on March......
KARACHI: The ground is covered with huge rocks and slabs that have slid down from the hillock behind. A few bamboos, tart, drums for holding water, crushed trunks and some clothes lie strewn on a......
KARACHI: A woman and a man died of Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in the city last week, Sindh health authorities confirmed on Tuesday.They added that another patient, suspected to be the......
KARACHI: Gingerly he got down from the coach that brought him to Karachi on Tuesday evening from Lahore, where he had arrived after crossing the Wagah Border some three days ago.Young Ghulam......
KARACHI: Social reformer and voice of the peasants of Sindh Qazi Faiz Mohammed’s 33rd death anniversary was observed amid much fanfare and a tribute to the iconic figure was organised at the open-air......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained firm on Tuesday amid fairly brisk trading activity as spinners continued to replenish their stocks.However, ginners were reluctant to dispose of their stocks at lower......
ISLAMABAD: As the provinces start sowing Rabi crops, the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) is anticipating increase in water shortage to around 20 per cent, much higher than estimated a fortnight......
ISLAMABAD: Merchandise exports fell by 14 per cent to $5.164 billion during the first quarter (July-Sept) of 2015-16 from $6bn in the same period last year, indicating stock piling of industrial and......
KARACHI: Currency dealers deposited a record $192 million in banks last month, reflecting surplus supply of US dollars in the open market.“Exchange companies at times deposit up to 70 per cent of......
ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to announce a reduction in the prices of urea and diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertilisers on Wednesday to help farmers reduce the cost of production.Speaking to......
ISLAMABAD: Future monetary policy making will be shifted to a specialised body led by State Bank of Pakistan governor and will include parliament nominees as well as bankers and government officials......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan will issue Rs5 coin of new size and changed metal composition tomorrow.The new coins will be issued through the exchange counters of all the field offices of SBP......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday informed the federal government about potential sites for setting up of economic zones and industrial parks along the China-Pakistan......
KARACHI: Profit-taking was witnessed on Tuesday, as the KSE-100 index shed 152.07 points (0.44 per cent) to close at 34,031.78.Investors turned cautious after the index accumulated over 1,000 points......
DUBAI: Iran has boosted exports of fuel oil through US-ally the United Arab Emirates and also almost doubled its imports of gasoline, despite Western sanctions, trading sources said.The US State......
ZURICH: China’s middle class has overtaken the United States to become the world’s largest, Credit Suisse said Tuesday in its latest report on global wealth.Asia will be the scene for the greatest......
NAMED Kumar Ganguly on birth, he became known to the world as Kishore Kumar and was considered one of the most successful playback singers of Indian films. Kishore died in Mumbai on Oct 13, 1987, at......
INDIA which always flaunts its secular face has had it blackened by the extremist Hindu organization, Shiv Sena.In Monday’s incident Mr Khurshid Ahmed Kasuri’s host in Mumbai, Mr Sudheenra Kulkarni......
NEW DELHI: A day after he stood his ground against rabid anti-Pakistan protesters in Mumbai, former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri visited Dilip Kumar on Tuesday, saying the ageing movie......
JERUSALEM: Jerusalem suffered on Tuesday its bloodiest day yet in a wave of unrest, with at least three Israelis killed as Palestinian attackers shot at a bus and drove a car into pedestrians.The bus......
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is reported to have shortened his visit to the United States from five to three days, cancelling at least two major engagements in the process.Meanwhile,......
TEHRAN: Iran’s parliament approved the country’s nuclear deal with world powers on Tuesday, paving the way for the historic agreement curbing Tehran’s atomic programme to take effect and for......
DAMASCUS: Two rockets struck the Russian embassy compound in Damascus on Tuesday, sparking panic as several hundred people gathered to express their support for Moscow’s air war in Syria, witnesses......
NEW YORK: Taylor Swift earned six American Music Awards nominations on Tuesday, and if she wins everything she’s up for, the singer will become the most-honoured female artist in the show’s......
RIYADH: Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen are the only ones who can bring an end to the seven-month-old war there, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.“I believe that the matter of......
GILZE RIJEN: Investigators concluded on Tuesday that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired over war-torn Ukraine, but 15 months after the disaster Russia and......
MUMBAI: A homeless Indian man who had been pronounced dead woke up on an autopsy table, shocking hospital staff who were about to begin a post-mortem, authorities said on Tuesday.Police in Mumbai......
ISTANBUL: The double suicide bombing on a peace rally in Ankara has raised a feud between the government and Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party to a new level, widening a dangerous polarisation as Turks......
TOKYO: The governor of Okinawa on Tuesday revoked approval for work on a US air base on the southern Japanese island, in the latest setback to the controversial plan.The proposal to relocate Futenma......
RIYADH: France on Tuesday announced a series of deals worth 10 billion euros ($11.4bn) with Saudi Arabia, reinforcing growing ties between the two countries.Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced the......
WASHINGTON: Playboy will stop publishing the photographs of the fully nude women so closely associated with it, declaring such pictures have become “passe” in the Internet age where free pornography......
VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s model village is disintegrating and his people are unhappy.The dirt road in Jayapur, which got a new lease of life after the village was adopted by Prime......
BEIJING: The Chinese term for crisis, weiji, contains the characters meaning danger and opportunity, a combination that best describes Dr Tu Youyou’s long journey to becoming China’s first Nobel......
KATHMANDU: The elevation of KP Oli, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) or CPN-UML, as the prime minister did not happen overnight. His increasing political bonhomie......
QUETTA: Former federal minister Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind has alleged that massive loot and plunder of public funds had been committed in Balochistan during the tenure of previous provincial......
GWADAR: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has exhorted the youth to benefit from the educational environment the government has created in the province to ensure their bright......
ISLAMABAD: By the end of the year Hunza Nagar, also known as “Pakistan’s organic village”, plans to export around 28 tons of dried apricot to Japan.This has become possible due to a Japan-assisted......
LAHORE: Fourteen stranded Pakistanis, who were scheduled to return home by the Samjhota Express, arrived in Lahore on Tuesday from Delhi by the Dosti Bus.Their Indian visas had expired and they were......
ISLAMABAD: The fate of at least 28 Pakistani pilgrims remains unknown even three weeks after the deadly Mina stampede during Haj. And the helpless government still has no option but to wait for......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has announced that the country will get rid of loadshedding by March 2018 and said that subsequently the nation will have surplus electricity.“We are not working......
ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Tuesday new envoys for a number of world capitals.The ambassadors-designate, who called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif included Foreign Office spokesman Qazi......
LAHORE: The Returning Officer of NA-122 rejected on Tuesday applications of two candidates who sought recount of votes cast in the Oct 11 by-election.Rejecting the applications of Abdul Aleem Khan of......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif, who is on an official visit to Turkey, called on Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday.According to a......
ISLAMABAD: The code of conduct issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for crucial by-elections, which had been partially struck down by the Lahore High Court (LHC), was restored by the......
KARACHI: Thirteen people, among them seven children aged between four months and 10 years, were crushed to death when a landslide hit their makeshift homes set up in an open plot under a hill in......
ISLAMABAD: Going by the press note issued after a meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the head of the Planning Commission, Ahsan Iqbal, it would appear that the latter has the PM’s......
KARACHI: Police investigators claim to have traced in Karachi more than 50 militants ‘inspired’ by the self-styled Islamic State (also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh) which wants a presence in the......
WE don’t need political parties. We don’t need your sermons on governance or new this and old that. We don’t want you, move out. While all of Pakistan was watching that contest in Lahore, Punjab......
ISLAMABAD: A Joint Investigation Team (JIT), looking into criminal charges against former petroleum minister and PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain, visited the head office of the Pakistan Medical and Dental......
RAWALPINDI: Three unidentified men robbed KFC restaurant on Benazir Bhutto Road in Saddar after midnight on Tuesday. The men walked away with cash and the CCTV system.The robbers parked their......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday observed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seems to have wrongly suspended the Prime Minister’s Kissan Package.The court observed......
RAWALPINDI: Two flight stewards associated with the national carrier were sacked on Tuesday after stolen mobile phones were recovered from their hand luggage during a customs check-in at the Heathrow......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 74 cyclists are participating in the Tour de Galyat National Cycle Race, which began on Tuesday from its starting point at the Pakistan Sports Complex.During the two-day race,......
ISLAMABAD: In a new campaign aiming to raise awareness among Pakistani youth about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030, the United Nations (UN) will write their values across school walls so......
ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has barred 12 clerics from delivering speeches and sermons at public gathering.The entry of 15 other ulema in the capital city has also been banned for two......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Secretary Khizar Hayat Gondal on Tuesday expressed apprehension over the increasing number of dengue patients in Rawalpindi and asked the departments concerned to improve......
ISLAMABAD: Nomad Gallery hosted an exhibition of miniature paintings, ‘Reading between the Lines’, a group show of young artists who graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 2015.Nageen......
ISLAMABAD: To avoid another Comsats dual-degree programme like situation in the future, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is expected to present a new policy on dual-degree programmes for its......
ISLAMABAD: One out of 10 children in Pakistan dies before the age of five because parents are reluctant to vaccinate them. To remedy the situation, parents should be required to submit vaccination......
MINGORA: Archaeologists in fresh excavations have unearthed the traces of two huge earthquakes that eventually destroyed the ancient city of Bazira at the end of 3rd century.Barikot Ghwandai, which......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the defence ministry to submit reply to an Indian woman’s petition against the enforced disappearance of her son from Kohat around three years......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is gathering the evidence of changes in voter lists of the Election Commission of of Pakistan (ECP) for NA-122 by-polls, which the party lost to the ruling......
LAHORE: In what appeared to be a rare precedent in Pakistan so far the baby who was reported as first polio ‘victim’ of 2015 in Punjab on Oct 9 was not paralysed by the disease.The development......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday ordered the Chiniot district coordination officer (DCO) to release a man detained on charges of spreading hate and violence.The bench headed by......
THERE was nothing surprising about the Supreme Court upholding the death sentence of a self-professed murderer; much more significant is the part of the ruling that says criticising blasphemy law......
THE death toll of pilgrims killed in Mina during Eidul Azha has apparently almost doubled. According to the Associated Press, nearly 1,400 people are now believed to have died in the stampede that......
“YOU have built here what you or anyone might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world.” These words of King Charles (Carlos) V echoed in my mind the other day......
REACTIONS to the Russian intervention in Syria essentially fall into three categories: ambivalence, consternation and enthusiasm.The first of these is the broad Western response. There was little......
FREEDOM is under threat in India and many of its right-thinking citizens are speaking out against the wave of right-wing violence and repression.On Monday, no less a figure than L.K. Advani was moved......
THE PPP today behaves almost like a pauper who has spent all his fortune but who clings on to grand descriptions. It talks about past glory, of sacrifices, of its struggle against martial law.It......
A REPORT from the finance ministry to the IMF details the increase in the circular debt in the three months till June of this year, and the picture is hardly inspiring.The power sector is defying all......
WASHINGTON: A group of former prisoners from the early days of America's “War on Terror” are suing two psychologists who helped build the CIA's torture program, the American Civil Liberties Union......
BEIRUT: The spokesman of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) confirmed on Tuesday the killing of the extremist organisation's second-in-command in a US air strike earlier in August.“America is......
